The Company:Our client, a major owner-operator, is currently looking for an experienced planning engineer for their Canadian Heavy Oil Projects.

The Role:As a Planning Engineer your main duties will involve:

- Deliver and maintain consistent and realistic plans and control structures for the project. - Understand the list of plans required to execute the assigned project sub-elements and their interface to other sub-elements. - Develop the activities, logic, resources and progress for the assigned project sub-elements, leading to the creation of the baseline schedule and its subsequent maintenance. - Develop, implement and comply with the planning and progress monitoring procedures. - Conduct the schedule monthly progress update, forecast, critical path and trend analyses for assigned elements, including any impact from interface areas. - Implement and maintain the status reports. - Provide regular and comprehensive schedule status reports to Project sub-element managers. - Assess and incorporate the impact of approved changes and any deviations from the key project targets and milestones, including productivity monitoring and identification of alternate approaches to optimise the plan(s). - Liase with and challenge Project Engineering personnel to ensure proper understanding of the key schedule sensitivities and drivers - Develop contract key dates, milestones and plan dates that align with the overall project schedule. - Participate in evaluating bid schedules and reviewing contractor plans to support contract award recommendations. - Develop contract sections for planning and progress reporting. - Review and verify contractors reported progress and ensure that this is reflected in the project schedule. - Contribute to the translation of the projects risk profile into the probabilistic risk model and understand the output, including the key risk drivers for the possible range of schedule completion dates. - Track the criticality of the main paths to completion and float consumption. - Implement and utilise the standard tools and processes. - Provide input data for and participate in benchmarking activities. - Contribute to close-out data to enable knowledge retention (lessons learned, project data compilation) at completion of work.

Essential Skills / Qualifications:Engineering Degree and/or Certification as a Planning Engineer or equivalent experience. - Minimum of 8 years industry experience in planning positions - Good written and oral communications - Position mainly at offices in Calgary (Home base and EPC offices) with possible future visits to site during construction.